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Date:      Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:27:10 -0500
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Vizion <vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kioexec core dump
Message-ID:  <438265DE.6000306@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <200511211617.04568.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com>
References:  <200511211556.08938.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> <438260ED.6080908@mac.com> <200511211617.04568.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com>

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Vizion wrote:
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>> signal 4 is SIGILL, an illegal instruction, which could be because the
>> software was compiled for the wrong CPU architecture, or it could indicate
>> a hardware problem with your RAM or CPU.  Check cooling.
> 
> I think it has to be something else.. this is the only core dump in the syslog  
> and the server is temperature monitored. temperatures were all fine. I think 
> if there were temperature problems the monitor would have logged it and there 
> would be other symptoms.

Well, if this was the only error, it could have been due to a genuine bug with 
the program, rather than a system-wide problem.  But I'd give memtest86 a spin 
overnight to see whether anything shows up...

-- 
-Chuck





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